Does the AI build Assassins?

[JWoods]

Tried search but could not find an answer.

I have never seen an AI controlled assassin though I have had some generals mysteriously die. Have seen a few spies though. Have my own spies / watchtowers for looking for them but nothing? If one of my generals is assassinated shouldn't there be a game alert?

Is it possible to make the AI build assassins?

Tx

JW

[eastsidehighrise]

might depend on your difficulty level, but i have definitely seen them.

in my campaign the ai builds assasins, not sure if they are used to full effect though because i assasinate them before they even get out of the settlement...

[Kahn]

Yeah, I've seen an AI assassin.

Next turn one of my generals, age 33, died of natural causes.


to quote everyone's favorite owl: "O RLY?"

[antaeus]

a pain in the arse.

cause to get rid of them, you have to use your own assassins, and i dont use assassins cause i like having a good rep.

[BeachedWhale09]

On my M/M campaign I have seen many many asssassins from other countries. I keep 2-3 assassins spread around my land to eliminate them as they come in.

[loquar]

I see loads all the time :/ quite depressing as antea said if you are trying not to use them yourself as there is no real defense against them other than your own assassins or hoping that your leaders traits with the help of some spies will pretect you.

I regularly see 2-3 milling around each of my frontline cites/fortresses.

So tempted to spread out and squash them with my units but I see that as a bit of a cheat so wont do it.

[Mithrantir]

In any game i have played AI is using assassins so much, it gets frightening.
I don't have any problem using my own to kill the AI assassins (and they are a good training for my assassins), but it gets very tedious.

[eastsidehighrise]

tedious... thats one thing this game will become time and time again! merchants, priests and papal elections, assasins and spies, retraining, bloody REBELS,

and crusades (marching an army halfway across the world on crusade only to have the crusade end when ur in some backwater in the balkans, you march ALL the way back home, and youre in northern italy wen the pope insists you march all the way back for another crusade!! :@)

sometimes i wish there was an option to 'cleanse' your half of the world with a good old extermination button, use with caution of course!

[Evolution]

Yes they do - I hate the French assassins because they always kill me Scottish generals.

[pwijnands]

I don't think difficulty is a factor, I play on M / M and see lots of AI assassins. I use my own to kill them (and lot's of other stuff as well) without it damaging my rep. I've even been immaculate for about 6 turns, then Egypt was destroyed and I couldn't release any prisoners anymore (the best way to get a good global reputation).

[vonKrysiak]

Yeah they build them all the time, not sure how often they succeed in killing someone but there are plenty of them around the towns. Sometimes I find them by accident when I move my unit or agent out of town and there he is: AI assasin ;-)

[bottenbreker]

I play on M / M and see lots of AI assassins.

i play on M / M 2 but i've only seen like 5 in 400 years so :s

[craziii]

you obviously have not encounter milan, it will spam at least 2 border provinces with spies + assassins to kill your general or drive him insane eventually.

[Frodo52]

I had one game where the Byzantine Empire just HATED one of my generals. I put him in Corinth with two high level spies and the city was *surrounded* by low level Byzantine assassins of years. They'd all take a crack at him every turn.

It took them five years, probably thirty assassination attempts, a dozen dead assassins. But they got 'im.

[Bluice]

I have seen plenty of them but I have not seen them once try and assasinate my generals and therefore have never been affected by them, quite disappointing actually considering I wreak havoc with them.

I use them like crazy when my king is about to die of old age because the dread accumulated from their operations that goes to the leader will die with him, although people say your reputation goes down I'm yet to see that.

[zeuxis the mighty]

I see TONS. I had a spy and he uncovered 5 around one of my castles (trying to kill my best gen.)

[Georgy Zhukov]

I see them only on vanilla on mods its a rarity for some reason :hmmm: . . .

~100th post

[Salah al-Din]

I think it does depend on the difficulty, on easy or medium I see hardly no assassins, but on hard and very hard they're completely spamming my provinces. I believe MTW had a better system to really have spies and prevents things like these from happening (border forts, etc.).

[reclaimer]

Some factions seem to spam assassins more than others. At times, the french have many assassins and I've lost many family members.

One time, I lost about 3 or 4 family members in one turn, that was really horrible. lol

[loquar]

Quick question. Do you keep a spy in each of your own cities? I always do. I think it may be the spy's that see them as once I have reached midgame I always see lots of assassins all over the map